{"id":13809,"date":"2023-03-23T18:25:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T10:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=13809"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T10:25:06","slug":"unemployment-worsened-even-with-more-foreign-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/unemployment-worsened-even-with-more-foreign-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment worsened even with more foreign investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230323-fdi-vs-indicators-05-unemployment.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"4000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230323-fdi-vs-indicators-05-unemployment.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230323-fdi-vs-indicators-05-unemployment.png 4000w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230323-fdi-vs-indicators-05-unemployment-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230323-fdi-vs-indicators-05-unemployment-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230323-fdi-vs-indicators-05-unemployment-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230323-fdi-vs-indicators-05-unemployment-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230323-fdi-vs-indicators-05-unemployment-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230323-fdi-vs-indicators-05-unemployment-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230323-fdi-vs-indicators-05-unemployment-1000x1000.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proponents of charter change insist that more FDI from changing the Constitution&#8217;s economic provisions will create job opportunities and decrease unemployment. Has unemployment decreased as FDI increased?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annual FDI inflows increased from an average of US$1.6 billion annually in the decade 2000-2009 to US$5.9 billion in the decade 2010-2019. Yet the number of unemployed Filipinos stayed high at an average of 4.29 million unemployed Filipinos within the same period, before the pandemic lockdowns, with a peak of 4.71 million jobless in 2019. This uses the same unemployment methodology for consistency.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proponents of charter change insist that more FDI from changing the Constitution&#8217;s economic provisions will create job opportunities and decrease unemployment. Has unemployment decreased as FDI increased?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[355,1225,253,2282,1807,309],"class_list":["post-13809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographics","tag-charter-change","tag-economic-charter-change","tag-foreign-direct-investments","tag-real-unemployment","tag-unemployed-filipinos","tag-unemployment","wpautop"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-13 01:00:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13812,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions\/13812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}